Rick Santorum Denies Comparing Gay Unions To Incest, Bestiality

Speaking to a group of conservatives on
Friday in Denver, Santorum revisited his 2003 remarks on the
groundbreaking Supreme Court decision that struck down sodomy laws
throughout the United States. Then-Pennsylvania Senator Santorum
compared such unions to “man on dog.”

“I said, if the Supreme Court gives
to individuals the constitutional right to consensual sexual
activity, then you have the right to incest, you have the right …
to polygamy, you name it, you have the right to anything, if it's
consent.”

He added that the gay community went
“ballistic” and the mainstream media asked him to resign “because
I was comparing homosexuality with incest and other things.”
(Those other things being bestiality.)

“No, I wasn't,” Santorum continued.
“I was saying, if the standard is consent, then how do you
rationally draw the line? You can't. And they aren't.”

“There are some in our party who say,
'Well, if New York wants to pass same-sex marriage, that's fine with
me,'” he said, then added, “Abraham Lincoln said it best: We do
not have the right to do wrong.”

Santorum went on to say that New York
had “destroyed” marriage. (The video is embedded in the right
panel of this page.)